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Shalabh Aggarwal
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Shalabh Aggarwal has more than 13 years' experience in developing and managing enterprise systems, as well as web and mobile applications for small-to large-scale industries. He started his career working on Python, and although he now works on multiple technologies, he remains a Python developer at heart. He is passionate about open source technologies and writes highly readable and quality code. He is a seasoned engineering leader who loves building engineering teams and products from scratch across multiple domains while leveraging different technologies. He is also active in voluntary training for engineering students on non-conventional and open source topics. When not working with full-time assignments, he consults for start-ups on leveraging different technologies. When not writing code, he writes technical and non-technical literature, which is published across multiple blogs.
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Implementing full-text search with Whoosh

Whoosh is a fast, featureful, full-text indexing and searching library that's implemented in Python. It has a pure Pythonic API and allows developers to add search functionality to their applications easily and efficiently. In this recipe, we will use a package called Flask-WhooshAlchemy, which integrates the text-search functionality of Whoosh with SQLAlchemy for use in Flask applications.

Getting ready

The Flask-WhooshAlchemy package can be installed via pip using the following command:

 $ pip3 install git+git://github.com/gyllstromk/Flask-WhooshAlchemy.git

This will install the required packages and dependencies. This library is being cloned and installed from GitHub because...

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Shalabh Aggarwal

Shalabh Aggarwal has more than 13 years' experience in developing and managing enterprise systems, as well as web and mobile applications for small-to large-scale industries. He started his career working on Python, and although he now works on multiple technologies, he remains a Python developer at heart. He is passionate about open source technologies and writes highly readable and quality code. He is a seasoned engineering leader who loves building engineering teams and products from scratch across multiple domains while leveraging different technologies. He is also active in voluntary training for engineering students on non-conventional and open source topics. When not working with full-time assignments, he consults for start-ups on leveraging different technologies. When not writing code, he writes technical and non-technical literature, which is published across multiple blogs.
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